• Italy’s president wanted to retire, re-elected instead
  • Vatican trial of the century resumes
  • Pope meets with Holocaust survivor 
  • Furor over Benedict XVI and Munich report
  • Vatican Sec. for Relations with States to visit Beirut
  • Disney+ looks to expand into Vatican City

John L. Allen Jr. is the editor of Crux, specializing in coverage of the Vatican and the Catholic Church. He has written eleven books on the Vatican and Catholic affairs, and also is a popular speaker...